Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert